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STORY: UNICEF / STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN (SOWC)
TRT: 1:59
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 28 JUNE 2016, 00:01 GMT
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE - 6 JANUARY, 2015, SHYAMNAGAR, BANGLADESH
1. Wide shot, hut
2. Tilt down, child reading
FILE - 5 FEBRUARY, 2014, DHAKA, BANGLADESH
3. Wide shot, children sit on cart
FILE – 5 JULY, 2015, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
4. Various shots, children studying
FILE – SANA’A, YEMEN
5. Various shots, children playing
FILE – MARCH 2016, Antananarivo, Madagascar
6. Pan right, city from hill
FILE – MARCH 2016, Nosy Be, Madagascar
7. Aerial shot, poor area
8. Aerial shot, rich area
FILE – MAY 2015, NEPAL
9. Various shots, damaged buildings
27 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Forsyth, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“If we don’t focus on the most disadvantaged, it will have a dramatic impact on society, creating inequality, creating cycles of intergenerational poverty. But in very practical terms, we know that if you invest in vaccinations for the most disadvantaged children, for every dollar spent it can generate 16 dollars, in terms of economic returns. We know that in Africa and Asia, 11% of GNP is lost because of a lack of investment in nutrition. So there are real practical reasons, both in terms of divisions in society, but also in economic returns for nation states and regional blocs, by making these investments.”
FILE – APRIL 2016, EL SALVADOR
11. Wide shot, father playing with children
12. Close up, young man
FILE – 20 JANUARY 2016, DIFFA, NIGER
13. Various shots, children in class
FILE – MAY 2016, NINH THUAN PROVINCE, VIETNAM
14. Med shot, child behind wall
15. Wide shot, child behind grandmother
FILE – JUNE 2016, HOUT BAY, SOUTH AFRICA
16. Aerial shot, slums
In a report released today (28 Jun), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) painted a stark picture for the future of the world’s poorest children if governments, donors, businesses and international organizations did not accelerate efforts to address their needs.
UNICEF’s “The State of the World’s Children” report said based on current trends, 69 million children would die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children would live in poverty, and 750 million women would have been married as children by 2030, the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals.
The report noted that significant progress had been made in saving children’s lives, getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty since the 1990s, however neither evenly nor fairly. It said the poorest children were twice as likely to be chronically malnourished or die before their fifth birthday than the richest.
According to the report, the outlook for sub-Saharan Africa was particularly grim. The region will account for nearly half of the children who will die before their fifth birthday from mostly preventable causes and nine out of ten children living in extreme poverty by 2030.
UNICEF Deputy Director Justin Forsyth said, “If we don’t focus on the most disadvantaged, it will have a dramatic impact on society, creating inequality, creating cycles of intergenerational poverty.” He said if one invested in vaccinations for the most disadvantaged children for example, every dollar spent could generate 16 dollars in economic returns. Forsyth said there were real practical reasons for countries and regional blocs to make these investments.
The report pointed to evidence that investing in the most vulnerable children can yield immediate and long-term benefits. Cash transfers, for example, had been shown to help children stay in school longer and advance to higher levels of education. The report said on average, each additional year of education a child received increases his or her adult earnings by about ten percent. It said for each additional year of schooling completed by young adults in a country, that country’s poverty rates fall by nine percent.
